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51. After imprisonment: what then?

52. Is our imprisonment system pathological?

53. Negotiated Justice: plea bargaining in "exchange-oriented" America

54. Correctional Treatment: is there anything to measure?

55. The purpose and effect of police professionalism

56. The various meanings of criminal statistics

57. Just what is recidivism?

58. The social organization of people in a prison

59. The alcoholic's "return" to society

60. Homosexuality and equal protection under the law

61. Lawyers as legislators: expertise or conflict of interest?

62. Consumer crime: social and physical harm to people

63. Organized Crime: the local political systems

64. American Justice: how much can you afford?

65. Judges: who are they, from where, and appointed by whom?

66. Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers: adversaries or coworkers?

67. Does an adversarial court system really determine truth?

68. The practice of law as a confidence game

69. Police brutality and corruption: can we trust "in-house" control?

70. Has Miranda (reading of rights) really hindered the police?

71. Is it okay to break the law to uphold the law?

72. Does Crime pay: what and to whom?


73. Pretrial and Trial publicity: the media's role

74. Do inmates give up all their rights when incarcerated?

75. Is all criminality deviant?

76. What would our society look like if it actually eliminated all crime?

77. Can we generalize about who's committing crime on the basis of who's been
caught?

78. Is any activity MALA EN SE (bad in and of itself)?

79. Is crime an evil which exists in spite of the law?

80. Who makes criminal law?

81. Are there class differences in criminal behavior?

82. Are more men criminal than women?

83. Why do some people challenge the criminal law?

84. Are we a nation "of laws" or "of men (human)"?

85. What does the way a society responds to crime tell us about that society and its
values...and about where that society sets its priorities?

86. Is crime a social as well as legal conception...something to be studied rather than


merely assumed?

87. Whose "order" or "stability" is disturbed by "crime"?

88. Should the subject matter of Criminology be limited to the existing legal
conceptions of crime?

89. Is our image of crime part of the "problem of crime"?

90. Are criminal activities any different in principle, than so-called honest business
activities?

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